Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives

[RKO]

Indeed. I would say he has a nice European art-house style, with his own touch of Hollywood spectacle.

 

[EML420]

Jesus lol he got a bigfoot pose in that picture I cant wait for this movie but I hope they keep the title sounds good to me.

 

[RKO]

 

[Drz]

Awesome shot!

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/19/first-look-at-cannes-lineup-films-competition/

So no Cannes premiere?

 

[RKO]

Indeed, he's probably still editing.

Here's a couple more pics:

 

[Drz]

Ah Refn's infamous blanket spotted!

 

[Blue Sugar]

Cool pics!

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/19/first-look-at-cannes-lineup-films-competition/

So no Cannes premiere?

According to his tweet, Refn is expected to be done with the film by the end of August. Which coincides with the start of the Venice Film Festival. So there's a possibility that it'll premiere there.

 

[chamber-music]

Kristen Scott Thomas briefly talked about this film on the BBC Breakfast show other day.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

hopefully this movie has a kick ass soundtrack like Drive did

 

[Drz]

According to his tweet, Refn is expected to be done with the film by the end of August. Which coincides with the start of the Venice Film Festival. So there's a possibility that it'll premiere there.

Oh yeah i probably mixed Venice and Cannes Film Festivals lol.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Quint of Ain't It Cool News has seen footage of Only God Forgives at a special screening in the Cannes Film Festival.

This footage was all part of a mystery presentation that was hosted by Cannes Festival head Thierry Fremaux. I received a mystery email about 45 minutes prior to the footage running, saying I should be in a certain theater by a certain time for a certain something-something.

Turned out it was about 45 minutes worth of trailers and sneak preview clips, but the mystery was upheld throughout due to my ignorant American inability to speak or understand more than a few words of French. Thierry introduced everything in his native tongue, so it wasn’t until I heard something like “French-french-french-frenchy-french-Nicolas Winding Refn-french-french” that I knew we were seeing some footage from this film.

We didn’t see much, just an extended scene, what I’m told is the beginning of the movie, but from I’ve seen I can say without a doubt that this might not be a sequel to Drive, but it feels like a shared universe.

Of course there are a few Drive touchstones in the footage: long tracking shots, liberal use of neon lighting (in this case purple and green) and a silent, but violent Ryan Gosling.

The footage opened with a long dolly shot down a dark and exotic hallway, overlaid with titles in a foreign language I’m pretty sure was Thai. As you can imagine, already not fully understanding the intro, I was a bit confused.

It was also confusing that the dolly tracks were still visible on the floor. I’d guess those will be removed digitally in the finished film, but they oddly fit with the gaudy font and foreign titles, so maybe they were intentionally left in.

There’s not a whole lot to the footage, honestly. The camera finds a room in what now seems to be a club of some sort, possibly a high-end strip club. Two Thai men in white suits sit laughing on a long couch in one corner, Gosling sits in another staring at a nervous looking girl holding a microphone. She’s not singing or looking like she’s about to sing, just standing there looking sad and lost in her thoughts.

Gosling stands abruptly, walks calmly over to the two Thai men having a good time and proceeds to smash one of the men’s drinks into this face, shattering the glass against his teeth.

Punches are thrown, Gosling dominating the fight, which continues out into the hall where Gosling grabs the hurt man by THE MOUTH (he’s lying on the floor, gasping in pain and Gosling just goes ahead and sticks his hand into the dude’s mouth and drags him down the hall by his upper jaw) and throws him out of the building.

The man’s friend kicks Gosling from behind, they brawl and Gosling ends up not only beating them both, he decides that’s not enough and removes his belt and starts a-whippin’.

That’s it. So, yeah, no real grasp of the story, but some good old fashioned silent-but-deadly Gosling violence.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55990

My god, that sounds badass. I'm dying to see a trailer.

 

[Drz]

I'm dying to see the trailer as well.

I saw "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and man Kristin Thomas was magnificent in it, she has a very small role, but she just has that wonderful snobbish elegence around her.

 

[Blue Sugar]

Quint of Ain't It Cool News has seen footage of Only God Forgives at a special screening in the Cannes Film Festival.



http://www.aintitcool.com/node/55990

My god, that sounds badass. I'm dying to see a trailer.

That sounds just awesome and totally Refn in every way.

 

[Tanin]

The movie sounds awesome though I was a bit disappointed cause I read the title as Nicolas Cage somehow, and Cage in a movie called Only God Forgives would be badass.

 

[Octoberist]

Violent, silent Ryan Gosling for the win.

 

[The Morningstar]

Lashings of the old, ultra violence, ay? Love it.

 

[Boom]

I heard this film has a December 2012 release, but I can't find confirmation of that anywhere.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

hopefully this film has an awesome soundtrack like Drive did

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I heard this film has a December 2012 release, but I can't find confirmation of that anywhere.

There's no official release date for the film yet but it's expected late this year or very early next year.

 

[Art Damage]

God I love Refn. I would love to see his take on Batman.

This movie looks fantastic!

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

God I love Refn. I would love to see his take on Batman.

This movie looks fantastic!

he's one of my top 5 favorite directors to take over after Nolan

 

[RKO]

 

[redhawk23]

on my computer those thumbnails don't enlarge.

 

[elsewhere]

I can't wait for this.

Drive was easily my favorite film of last year.